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There’s a new way to turn your old vinyl collection to CD, or MP3. With the new Stanton T.90 USN Turntable you can not only play your favourite vinyl records on your latest sound system, you can record the records and convert them in one of several popular musical formats.
The Turntable is powered by the powerful Cakewalk Pyro 5 software to make certain that you are getting the best quality record.
Image used with permission.
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The producers of the popular video game “Rock Band” have announced today that they have obtained exclusive rights to The Beatles music for a new video game.
I for one am really excited to see that one of my favourite bands is still living strong into the next digital generation.
Read more at CBC.ca
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You may not have heard of Jessica Mauboy, but she was once a contestant on Australia’s version of American Idol. She didn’t win, but she has been taking the music industry by storm with her new single “Running Back’ featuring Flo Rida. I see this song killin the charts so listen to it and get the album that’s out now in stores.
Information available from Idol Stalker.com
Also check out her music on her MySpace page http://www.myspace.com/jessicamauboy
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64k, 96k, 128, 256k. What do they all mean? It’s simple really: the bigger the number, the higher the quality. But there is a catch: the higher the number, the larger the file size.
Just like an internet connection is rated, a music file is rated at kilobits per second, not kilobytes per second. The more kilobits you have available, the more data you can fit in the audio file. The more data you can fit in an audio file, the better sounding the song will be. Told you it’s simple.
Now then, how do you know which data rating you should …read more

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For many years, MP3 has been the standard for audio storage on computers, some CD players, and MP3 players galore. When iTunes hit the mass market (basically when it hit iTunes 4 and branched to Windows), the Advanced Audio Codec (AAC) made its presence known by having it be the default codec in iTunes. And there’s good reason that Apple has set it as the default codec.
AAC files are notorious for being the same quality as a higher encoded MP3 file, not to mention a smaller file size. While an average 3 minute song in 256k MP3 format is about …read more

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A new series we’re going to be starting here on Our Digital Music is “The ABCs of Digital Music” where, if you didn’t guess, we’ll go through digital music terms that starts with every letter of the alphabet. Think of it as a crash course, or Cliff’s Notes, or a cheat sheet if you dare…
There is a plan lined out, but if you would like to see something additional covered here, please feel free to comment below and tell us what you think!

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Apple has once again released the iTunes New Music Tuesday list, and the line up is as complex as usual. Featured proudly at the top of the list is the Counting Crows with their Live from SoHo. Their description of the album:
In an ever-changing music industry where most bands are as capricious as their fickle fans, it’s rare to find a band whose absolute consistency is what makes them so great.
Also featured is Tori Amos, U2, Sugarland, and Miley Cyrus.
As always, there’s lots of new music to check out, so looks around the iTunes Store to see if any …read more

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One of the biggest debates in today’s music industry is the debate of Digital Rights Management: The practice of putting restrictions onto your music that states what you can and can’t do with a song. If you’ve bought a song from the iTunes Store or subscribe to a music service, you’ve most likely bought a song with DRM on it. While Apple has introduced iTunes Plus: Songs without DRM and at a higher quality bitrate (256k vs. 128k), it hasn’t reached all of their songs and shows no sign of reaching all the songs any time soon.
I am generally …read more

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For the iPhone users in the audience who are still a little mad that Apple still hasn’t included stereo Bluetooth (also known as A2DP), you are now able to use your Bluetooth headphones with your iPhone and iPod touch, but there’s a catch (as always). You must spend $62 to get a Bluetooth adapter who’s sole purpose is to provide A2DP. Gotta love it.

The Infinixx adapter uses the standard dock connector that you can find on recent iPods, so you can also use the adapter on your iPod Touch, iPod nano, iPod Classic, iPod Video, iPod Color, and iPod Mini. …read more

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Who said the digital music market is just iTunes? Apparently, Activision wants to see if they can shake things up by making their own online music store. Now, what would a gaming company have to do with music downloads? Well, not much… Until you consider the fact that Activision is the publisher of Guitar Hero.
“I don’t think there have been a lot of credible alternatives to iTunes, but Guitar Hero certainly has that potential.” -Bobby Kotick, chief executive of Activision Blizzard
Well, you keep thinking that Bobby. I agree that Guitar Hero has potential in the online market, but …read more

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